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BIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 5, Issue 5, Pages 700-704Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0501
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social insects; kin selection; sex allocation; conflict; sexual conflict; power
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Sex allocation in colonies of eusocial Hymenoptera is one of the best studied social conflicts. We outline a framework for analysing conflict outcome through power and the costs of manipulation and suggest that the conflict will often be unresolved because both major parties of interest, the queen and the workers, should manipulate allocation even at considerable costs to the colony. We suggest future work for analysing power in the conflict between queen and workers over sex allocation and discuss the extent of male power.
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